Posted on 07/26/2010 1:34:38 PM PDT by mojito
BOSTON (WBZ) ― Senator John Kerry found himself answering questions Monday about his new $7 million yacht and the controversy about where he's docking it.
"There's nothing more to say about it," he told reporters at an event at the former South Weymouth Naval Air Station Monday.
The "Isabel" is docked in Rhode Island rather than at Kerry's summer home on Nantucket or in Boston Harbor. That means he avoids paying nearly $500,000 in taxes to Massachusetts and he doesn't have to pay a $70,000-a-year excise tax.
Rhode Island repealed those taxes in 1993. That has made the state something of a nautical tax haven.
"Let's get this very straight, I've said consistently we will pay our taxes, we have always paid our taxes. It's not an issue period," he said.
Last week, when the Boston Herald broke the story, Kerry's office released a statement saying, "The boat was designed by and purchased from a company in Rhode Island, and it's based in Newport at the Newport Shipyard for long term maintenance, upkeep and charter purposes, not tax reasons."
"It's being worked on. It's under warranty down there. It's being worked on and it will come to Massachusetts and I look forward to that," Kerry said Monday.
When asked "Did you berth the boat in Massachusetts?" he replied, "That depends on who owns it."
Then, he said to his driver, "Can I get out of here please?"
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ROFLMAO!
Getting it ready to spend Christmas Eve in Cambodia.
This is beautiful-—the tax’em, spend ‘em fraud avoiding the high taxation he helped foist among the working people of Ma. courtesy of the dastardly liberals. It’s karma that this fraud is getting such heat on this issue. Liberals accuse others of what they themselves are guilty of! As for the voters of Ma. he’s all yours-—you own him yacht, sloop and ballot! Voting democrat = stuck on stupid!
Is it common that the powerful people who have the power to impose taxes and actively engage in raising those taxes are the same people that go to extraordinary measures to not pay those same taxes?? Are you a jackass ?
I’d love to don some SCUBA gear and use my brace bit to put some well placed holes in the bottom of that boat where it is moored in Rhode Island.
Laughed so hard my stomach hurt.
High boat taxes in Massachusetts keeps the rift reef out of the Massachusetts water. Would that make Kerry rift reef?
No,but you seem to be a jackass and a rude jerk!
What a tragedy if such a beautiful boat were to mysteriously sink at dock some night.
I understand that this boat was once in Vietnam.
Do as I say, not as I do.......
I doubt any freepers are senators who vote for these taxes, but then I could be wrong.
Did it speand Christmas in Cambodia?
You decide:
“Mr. President, I remember Christmas of 1968 sitting on a gunboat in Cambodia. I remember what it was like to be shot at by the Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge and Cambodians, and have the president of the United States telling the American people that I was not there; the troops were not in Cambodia. I have that memory which is seared - seared - in me, that says to me, before we send another generation into harm’s way we have a responsibility in the U.S. Senate to go the last step, to make the best effort possible in order to avoid that kind of conflict.” [see Congressional Record - Senate of March 27, 1986, page 3594]
Love that quote!
ROTFLOL!
I think this same yacht may be the "Scaramouche" with a new name, but I could be wrong.
raccoonradio: Do you know? I can't keep all of John F'in Kerry's "toys" straight... ;-)
No this is a different boat. The Scaramouche was renamed the Let It Be
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